Change default color of sidenote

[Ian]

Hi,

Side Notes have a yellow background. Is there a way to make the color
none or quickly change the color.

OneNote 2007
Vista SP2 64Bit

 

[Erik Sojka]

Side Notes are just new Pages in the Unfiled Notes Section. Navigate to
that section and change the page color using File | Page Setup.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Side Notes have a yellow background. Is there a way to make the color
none or quickly change the color.

Eric is right.
Just change the color after having put the side-note into an
ON-notebook.

Having experimented quite a bit, i have found a way to make changes
persistent so that every side-note will always open with a defined
standard colour (and be it white).
As it's a solution "around 99 corners" O will need some time to write up
OneNote an understandable way.
So please stay tuned for a couple of days until my recipe will be ready
for posting.

Rainald

 

[Ian]

Ok thanks Rainals, yes I know how to change a note but I wanted it to be a
permanent change for each new note. A google search shows I am not the first
to ask and that goes back to OneNote 2003 ;-). One of the reasons I want to
change it as I use Firefox and the plugin to send to onenote seems to use
the side note and so all send to OneNote from Firefox turn up yellow pages.

I look forward to your work arround.

Ian

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Ok thanks Rainals, yes I know how to change a note but I wanted it to
be a permanent change for each new note. A google search shows I am
not the first to ask and that goes back to OneNote 2003 ;-). One of
the reasons I want to change it as I use Firefox and the plugin to
send to onenote seems to use the side note and so all send to OneNote
from Firefox turn up yellow pages.

Here we go:

1.) It is sufficient to change the background color *once*.
Thereafter the newly set color is persistent for all new side-notes.
If the FireFox add-OneNote is using the side-note feature this would be
a persistent solution.

2.) Unfortunately the background color can only be changed with the
"Page Setup" in the "Task Pane" and the command is only available from
the menu.

But all commands are available for customizing the toolbar(s).
So we take this way and temporarily place the command "Page Setup" in
the toolbar:
a) Click on the little down-arrow in the utmost right of the toolbar to
open the little window for customizing the toolbar.

b) In the customizing window click on "Add or remove icons", then select
"Customize" to open the customization applet.

c) In the applet on the tabbed page "Commands" select "File" and then in
the list on the right side navigate to "Page Setup".

d) Then drag the item onto the toolbar.

e) Close applet.

3.) Clicking OneNote "Page Setup" will open the Task Pane with the
options
for the setup of the page.
Select the wanted color (probably white).

After closing the page and opening a new sidenote the new color will be
used.

4.) As the button "Page Setup" in the toolbar is rather big and it's
unneeded once the color is customized, the last step is to remove the
button.
Just open the customization applet (as explained above under 2a and b).
Then drag the button from the toolbar to remove it.

I hope the recipe is clear enough. Pls excuse me should the terns used
are not 100% correct: It's *my* translations (my system speaks German).

Rainald

 

[Ian]

I did all the changes but it keeps forgetting.

If I do the color change then close the note then next side note is yellow.

If I do the color change and don't add content to the side not and just
close it then the very next side note is the new color. Close that then next
side note is yellow.

It just won't remember the color.

You explanation is very good and your English is as good as anyone's

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I did all the changes but it keeps forgetting.

If I do the color change then close the note then next side note is
yellow.

If I do the color change and don't add content to the side not and
just close it then the very next side note is the new color. Close
that then next side note is yellow.

It just won't remember the color.

I'm so sorry :-( :-(
Obviously I had not tested enough.
You are right.
If the sidenote is edited, the color of the next sidenote will be yellow
again.

Indeed there seems to be no way to make the color selection persistent
:-(

You explanation is very good and your English is as good as anyone's

Thanks for the flowers!
I had just meant the terminology used in ON's commands. Sometimes
translating them may not match the "official" wording.

Rainald